In a landmark observation by a team of international researchers, NASA's Juno spacecraft has, for the first time, clearly ...

What type of lander could touch down on Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io? This is what a recent paper presented at the AIAA 2025 Regional Student Conference hopes to address as a team of student engineers ...

On Sept. 21, 2003, NASA's Galileo mission to Jupiter and its moons came to an end. After 14 years of exploration, the Galileo ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical ...

Who hasn't looked into the sky and wondered if there's life out there, somewhere, looking back at us? Is it possible there's alien life closer to home — within the bounds of our solar system? The ...

The interaction of the Moons of Jupiter with the gas giant result in auroral imprints. The auroral imprint of one of the four Galilean moons has evaded astronomers, so far.

When I see planets in the night sky, I think of them as old friends. I know, I know — I need to get out more, but my oldest ...

NASA's Webb Telescope is investigating the formation of moons around a massive planet. A team at UZH is using the data to study the chemical composition of a disc that is believed to be the basis for ...

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Phases of ice that exist naturally only on frozen moons could be detected using infrared spectroscopy, according to new laboratory experiments.

The institute has been a unique fixture in Ireland, and now, with space central to its future, the sky is no limit ...

The autumn night sky in Ireland is an observer's treasure-trove and the first celestial event of the season arrives on September 7 with a lunar eclipse and blood moon ...